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| Russia Backs Monitors for 'Simultaneous' Syria Ceasefire |
| 2012-03-14 |
| [An Nahar] Russia said Tuesday it will press Syria to accept international monitors who could observe the implementation of a "simultaneous" ceasefire between government troops and rebels. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia was discussing the proposal with both the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... countries and at the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... , where the Security Council debated the crisis on Monday. "The objective is for both sides to understand that there is an independent observer watching how they meet demands -- and we are definitely going to be making such demands -- for an immediate ceasefire," he said. "This must be simultaneous. We must not have a situation in which the government is required to leave the cities and villages while the gangs are not made to do the same. "This is unrealistic, not because we want the bloodshed to continue, but because the unilateral withdrawal of government forces is completely unrealistic," Lavrov told news hounds. "The Syrian authorities will not go for that, whether we like it or not." |
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